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Friday, 27 August 2010

V2010 Day One - a BlackLOG pictorial

I don't know what it is but sorting and loading the pictures seems to take far longer than putting words onto a page. Once again it proved fairly easy to get The Beast into the VFestival, although it took even longer than last year to get through security. Almost an hour to move about 30 meters, very frustrating and resulted in us missing 'The Pretty Reckless'and 'Daisey Dares'.

Joe, Mrs B, yours truely and The Beast

Picture courtesy of Mini Beast and Kirsty

bum fluff courtesy of Joe....

The Music

The Magic Numbers
The result of the security delay was that the opening group for us were The Magic Numbers. They were OK but for some reason I got it into my head that they did the song "3 is the magic number" since they didn't and didn't even have the good grace to do a cover version of it, I soon discovered I didn't really know any of their songs. Plus they can best be described as quantity rather than quality....

Romeo Stodart

"Forever Lost"

I'm not sure exactly how you could misplace him?

Michele Stodart

"Close your eyes"

Looks like Michele took the song title to heart...

The Divine Comedy

I quite like Mr Hannons clever lyrics but it was never going to set the festival a light, more suitable to a cosy gig somewhere...

Neil Hannon

"Gin Soaked Boy"

Well cerainly a wine drenched man....

Paloma Faith

At last things started to pick up, great singing and she had a good sense of humour as well

V good Miss Paloma.

“Does anyone here like David Guetta?

Are you going to watch him later?

I'm not a big fan myself but …

I have done this cover though which

I think you will find is rather good….”

You tell them girl....

"Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?"

I do hope she's not calling me too honest....

Parlotones

A bit of a find this lot, I can even forgive them for being South African (It's not my fault, I can blame the Spitting Image song -"Never met a nice South African" for this totally unfair and unjustified statement - sorry Dirk......what can I say, I'm obviously a product of the songs I listen to...) - I particularly love the shapes that the lead singer Paul Hogson throws while performing.

Paul Hogson - Lead singer

"Bird in Flight"

Looks like he is winging it to me...

Sorry, could not resist...

I'll get my coat....

"Brighter Side of Hell"

Looks like they have rabbits...I bet they bite....

"Overexposed"

Damn and I thought it was

a good attempt at a silhouette

Rock.Paper.Scissors

I think he's cheating....

Lissie

Great voice but walked a very thin line between proper music and that country rubbish....

Sorry, I forgot that BlackLOGdoes not like the country numbers...

"Why You Runnin'?"

To be brutally honest Lissie it's your hairy

armpits, they aren’t that beautiful.

Paloma I've decided

I would like to opt for the beautiful....

Yes Kirsty when a singer comes on stage and says

"Howdy y'all"

there is a pretty good chance that she is an American...

This is Lissies lead guitarist, although it looks like

he has escaped from the set of 'Beauty and the Beast'

Scouting for Girls

I don't care that they are a bit poppy and uncool, they are great fun to watch....

Roy Stride wants you to give him the clap.....

I think Greg Churchouse may have

spotted one of those girls....

Paul Weller

We came in part way through his set and so did not get that close to the stage. I'm not convinced by all the accolades that he is getting at the moment, he’s a good song writer and performer but he’s certainly no Millie Vanillie….

He did play the Jam song "Start" which

was the highlight of his performance for me.

Stereophonics

The best of times - they were fantastic, the performance of the day

The worst of times - we had to miss Florence and the Machine which was on at the same time....

We got caught in the middle of a beer (or possibly worse....) throwing battle. Why do people do this, pay a fortune for a drink then chuck half of it.....at one point Mrs B seemed to become a magnet for incoming missiles. It was at this point we witnessed :-

Two miracles before the inevitable.

One inbound cup was heading straight for Mrs B’s head….Suddenly this hand shot out and grabbed it inches from her petrified little face….didn’t even spill a drop until Mrs B's saviour chucked it back in the direction that it came from (No doubt to land on some other innocent festival goers head)….He got a standing ovation from everyone around.

Seconds later another cup was heading for Mrs B’s head, another guy tried to do the same only he failed to catch it and diverted it onto himself….Where was her faithful husband during this time, he was still laughing his head off at the first attempt on Mrs B’s dryness…

No one attempted to stop the third cup and so Mrs B finally, like a scene out of Final Destination, got the drenching that had been coming her way……

I myself was hit on the nose by something hot, I was about to scream like a little girl, I thought it was a lit cigarette that was attached to my nose. Fortunately before I could embarrass myself I discovered it was a bit of hot chicken – not exactly pleasant but at least I was not going to be scarred for life….For the record, no I didn’t eat it, it looked a bit over done for my taste…..

Kelly Jones

"Something In The Way"

Lucky for Mrs B

"I miss You Now"

It sounds like it was Mr Jones who was

throwing his beer at Mrs B....

"Oi!, Kelly stop it..."

Kings of Leon

For me the disappointment of the day - they may have been the Saturday headline act but their performance just seemed half hearted.... We must have been in the minority though, as we tried to force

our way out the crowd, it seemed to get thicker and thicker and seemed to go on forever....

14 comments:

From what I seen on the telly (Channel 4 really shouldn't be allowed to do any festival coverage) Stereophonics looked good. I was hoping you'd seen Pixie Lott and taken some pics. I didn't know who she was last week...but phwoaarrr!

Did you see the Doves? Apparently they got bottles thrown at them didn't they? That's bad enough but people throwing things at gigs/festivals is something I'll never understand. What kick do they get out of it? Feral c**ts the lot of them.

Michael still scarred by his Security experience - it was the slipping on of the rubber gloves that did it for him! We send you poor, young and innocent country boys and you expose them to seedy, scary city living!!!! BEAUTIFUL photos, well done Beastie.

cynicalscribble said... From what I seen on the telly (Channel 4 really shouldn't be allowed to do any festival coverage) Stereophonics looked good.It amazes me how good groups sound live when you are there but just doesn’t translate on to channel 4. Some of the Live DVD’s I’ve watched seem to be able to capture the sound, I guess they have time to Xfactor them….I was hoping you'd seen Pixie Lott and taken some pics. I didn't know who she was last week...but phwoaarrr! Since Pixie is about 10 I was a bit reluctant to take any pictures of her in case The Beast and I ended up on the child sex offenders list

Did you see the Doves? Apparently they got bottles thrown at them didn't they?So did Mrs B, so it might not have been their fault… We watched Faithless as we had a good position ready for Kasabian and so decided not to give it up.

That's bad enough but people throwing things at gigs/festivals is something I'll never understand. What kick do they get out of it? Feral ****s the lot of them.I think they get so drunk they don’t know what they are doing. I must admit the I was pretty cross with the guy who caught the cup and then through it back….But since he had saved Mrs B I let him off with some gentle banter….

Nikki said... I'm embarrassed to tell you that out of all those bands I only know Kings of Leon and Florence and the Machine. I know I know...stop throwing things!Sounds like you are in need of some musical education….

Always love Mrs. B's accessories. Cute necklace!I'm not sure how I feel about being describes as a Mrs B accessory...I guess I’ve been called worse though

skipperthewonderhorse said... Michael still scarred by his Security experience - it was the slipping on of the rubber gloves that did it for him!Well he shoudn't have slipped them on then....

We send you poor, young and innocent country boys and you expose them to seedy, scary city living!!!! BEAUTIFUL photos, well done Beastie.I look at it that we returned you men….Possibly men who have been mentally scarred for life but a little bit more worldly wise all the same

~:C:~ said... Oooh... I luuuv the Stereophonics. :) Lucky you.If you get the chance to see them live it is probably worth selling one of your kidney’s and your left lung. I'm a bit gutted because I could have got to see them play at a smaller venue in October but we are flying off to Cuba on that day....

I was reading that like "I don't know any of these bands, I must be out of touch" (yes, I'm only learning this now despite the fact that most of my iPod is loaded with Tool and Metallica and Foo Fighters and the likes)

Anyway, I do know Rock, Paper, Scissors though. The game, not a band or a song or anything by that name.

The Parlotones are excellent. We've been playing and promoting them on our show for a couple of years, since we first discovered them. They played in the opening ceremony in the football world cup in SA.

ScoMan said... I was reading that like "I don't know any of these bands, I must be out of touch" (yes, I'm only learning this now despite the fact that most of my iPod is loaded with Tool and Metallica and Foo Fighters and the likes)Well I must admit to total ignorance of Tool, I’m guessing it’s not a cheat* for Rock, Paper, Scissors…

* Yes there are cheats for Rock, Paper, Scissors – one I like to use is Water, it sinks rock, soaks paper and rusts scissors and even trumps the other cheat Fire which burns paper, melts scissors and blackens stone….only to be put out by water….welcome to a whole new universe

Anyway, I do know Rock, Paper, Scissors though. The game, not a band or a song or anything by that name. I like top think that some music education might, just might rub off on you

Brennig said... The Parlotones are excellent. We've been playing and promoting them on our show for a couple of years, since we first discovered them. They played in the opening ceremony in the football world cup in SA.Welcome to the minority of people who seem to have heared them. Spounds like You beat me by about 18 months, I guess I should try and listen to your show...